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This white paper on the benefits of broadband from the Communications Workers of America makes the point that high-speed Internet access has become vital to the success of individuals and communities. It suggests governmental action—in partnership...

In 2013, Smart Cities Council member ABB and Silicon Valley Power (SVP) opened a communications network to provide free public outdoor Wi-Fi access through the city of Santa Clara. Replacing an outdated and limited system that only served parts of...

Over the past decade, Amsterdam developed a vision for collaborating, envisioning, developing and testing numerous connected solutions that could pave the way to a smarter, greener urban environment. Its vision evolved into a Cisco Smart+Connected...

Hayward, California needed an city network capable of scaling the services and applications to more effectively support staff and the public. At the same time, it needed a streamlined solution to reduce complexity and cost, enabling the...

City leaders interested in a framework for advancing digital technology can get some insights from the Digital Masterplan for Dublin provides a guide for the city in terms of adaption, creation and adoption of digital technologies and...

In 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia Mayor Gregor Robertson put together a Greenest City Action Team. Its job was to construct a plan to transform Vancouver into the greenest city on earth. This document outlines the vision and may serve...

Vancouver, British Columbia wants to be the greenest city by 2020 and in 2009 began a process to get them there - the Vancouver Greenest City by 2020 Action Plan. The city regularly updates its goals and targets; this document is an example. Other...

Q&A with Jochen Kreusel, Head of sector initiative Smart Grids, ABBJochen Kreusel is an exemplary German technology expert -- someone who combines deep technical proficiency with strong managerial skills. His conversations are often marked by a...

The Council motto is Livability, Workability, Sustainability. Most people would say that outdoor billboards detract from livability. But here's a story about several designs that perform a useful function while they also advertise. They were...

In areas with the most robust distributed generation growth in the U.S., the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) says applications to interconnect new generation sources have overwhelmed utility processes, causing project delays, and in some...

Q&A with Mike Carlson, General Manager, Software Solutions, GE's Digital Energy businessI first met Mike Carlson in the mid-2000s when he would often show up on smart grid panel discussions. As the Vice President and Chief Information...

We see it over and over again with each technology wave. The advent of personal computers (PCs) created an urgent need for PC management software. The growth of computer networking led to a need for network management software. And now the onslaught...

Resources - 05/31/2013

Active Region(s): Main, Readiness Guide Online

Category: Public safety and security, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Security and privacy, Examples and case studies

City leaders in the town of Hudson, Ohio have had a long commitment to GIS mapping technology, But eventually the web-based GIS solution it had launched back in 2003 became labor-intensive to maintain. Hudson revamped the design of its...

Street construction projects are a big deal for businesses in the area where the construction is occurring, for citizens who need to get from Point A to Point B in a timely fashion and for neighborhood residents who must endure the noise and...

When the UK Government mandated a greater focus on customers ‒ as well as budget cuts and an increased emphasis on regionally shared services ‒ it was a challenge for the London Bureau of Brent, which serves approximately 270,000 residents in...

As Jacksonville, N.C. city workers became more and more dependent on the city's ITS department, officials decided it was time to refresh the department’s infrastructure to help ensure that operations and employee support remained fully...

In the city of Corpus Christi, Texas, Smart Cities Council member ABB implemented a citywide communications network that delivered $30 million in savings -- and extra benefits the city wasn't expecting. This case study explains how city...

Global energy consumption is on the rise. However, there are technological innovations crafted precisely to raise energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. City leaders will be interested in what's happened in Singapore, where a multi-plant...

Ferries play a vital role in the public transport infrastructure of many waterside towns and cities, but they also produce great amounts of carbon emissions when docked at ports for hours at a time. City leaders facing this issue will be...

Michael Edmonds is a smooth and articulate spokesman for S&C Electric, the Chicago-based provider of electric power equipment and services for utilities. The British accent certainly doesn't hurt, but he can also lean on many years in the...

Resources - 05/20/2013

Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online

Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control

If any company has carved out mind share as a smart cities thought leader, it is IBM. And the man responsible for IBM's smart cities messaging worldwide is Rich Michos, Vice President Marketing, Smarter Cities. There's a lot underneath that...

What can cities do to counter the effect of declining municipal finances on urban infrastructure that's in great need of renewal? Mayors and experts from the financial community discuss that issue in this video discussion hosted by the Milken...

Resources - 05/13/2013

Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online

Category: Built environment, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership

Learn how the city of South Bend, Indiana, uses IBM's Intelligent Operations Center to mitigate combined sewer overflows. As this video explains, the integration of IBM technology with smart valves and sensors from business partner EmNet helped the...

Resources - 05/07/2013

Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online

Category: Health and human services, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership

City leaders looking for ways to jumpstart mobility initiatives will find this AT&T policy guide extremely useful. It illustrates the promise of mobility using public sector case studies and reviews the most common challenges to developing...

Smart cities experts discuss the challenges governments and business leaders face in building the next generation of intelligent infrastructure for the cities of the future in this video session moderated by Vijay Vaitheeswaran, China business and...

Resources - 05/06/2013

Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online

Category: Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Policy and leadership

Reed Pangborn is AT&T's area vice president for government, education and medical. In that role, he is responsible for helping cities "mobilize" their applications. An active runner, hiker and skier, he is a happy resident of Phoenix, where it...

In January, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Building America team met a major deliverable set by the U.S. Department of Energy for the Building America program by releasing the Building America Solution Center to the public.This web...

This video showcases Pavegen's installation of tiles near a transport station outside Olympic Park during the 2012 London Summer Olympics. The company says 12 of its units harvested the energy from over 1 million footsteps to power 12 LED...

What is an eco city? What will tomorrow's green city look like? How do you build cities that do more with less to provide for ever-growing populations?Urban planners, city leaders and citizens interested in learning how sustainable housing, energy...

City leaders seeking ways to simplify the way citizens interact with the government will be interested in the solution that the Direction Générale de Modernisation de l’État (DGME) of France chose. As the country's modernization agency, its...

Philip Mezey combines a distinguished countenance with boyish curiosity and enthusiasm. In 2012, after an external search to find a replacement for the retiring LeRoy Nosbaum, the company realized it had the ideal candidate in house and named...

Resources - 04/19/2013

Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online

Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control

City leaders who want to score with their constituents should take a look at this case study outlining how analyzing real-time data at Florida's Sun Life Stadium - home of the Miami Dolphins - allows improvement to the game-day experience for fans...

This paper explains the benefits and challenges of using information technology to solve typical problems that cities face in delivering services to citizens. It is intended to help city leaders, city IT staff and enterprise architects determine how...

City leaders and staff interested in learning more about why interoperability is such an important piece of a smart city will find this white paper very helpful. As it states, interoperability is not an end in itself; interoperable systems deliver...

This paper introduces the architecture of the event-driven smart city, the kind of city where digital artifacts enable the interoperability between Internet of Services, Internet of Things and Internet of People. City leaders will learn how this...

City leaders focused on the opportunities that interoperability provide will be interested in Europe-based i-SCOPE - interoperable Smart City services through an Open Platform for urban Ecosystems. iSCOPE delivers an open source toolkit for 3D smart...

This comprehensive white paper provides guidance for government managers as they begin to move beyond the vision of a more effective government to the reality. If as a city leader you believe network forms of government can help achieve more...